“[W]e’re on course to all be parasitized by our own AI stalkers, helpfully generating video and other content tweaked iteratively to compel us to pay attention, whether due to arousal, disgust, happiness, fear, or whatever. It doesn’t matter how insanely CPU-intensive this sort of application is: some dipshit with no social insight and an underdeveloped sense of morality is going to deploy it in an attempt to monetize us. The low hanging fruit is procedural porn tailored to appeal to the micro-targeted audience’s kinks, even if they don’t think they have any (use A/B testing to see which random fetish images get their attention, then converge). What are the high-end applications, beside destroying all trust in news media forever?” From: What can possibly go wrong? | Antipope.org

Just a friendly reminder from your friendly neighborhood scifi writer that, no matter how bad you think it is now, it’s going to get much, much worse soon.